For Toronto developers · architects · planners

Toronto site feasibility in one afternoon.

Click a parcel to generate zoning-backed massing, a live pro forma, comparable approvals, and a decision-ready feasibility report — without rebuilding the same model from scratch.

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Built for Toronto developers, architects, planners, and infill investors.

Parcel pick → massing → pro forma → investor-ready report
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How it works

How SiteYield works

Parcel to pro forma in three moves.

01
Pick a parcel
Search any Toronto address or click a lot on the map. SiteYield pulls the parcel, zoning, overlays, and nearby planning context.
02
Generate massing
Create conservative, balanced, and aggressive massing options based on zoning, geometry, setbacks, angular planes, and planning risk.
03
Underwrite and export
Generate a live pro forma, comparable approval set, planning path, risk register, and investment-committee-ready PDF.
THE ONE BUTTON · Highest & Best Use, computed

One click. The highest-value building
your lot can support.

Press Generate Optimal Massing and SiteYield reads your lot polygon, your zoning code, every applicable Toronto Tall Building Design Guideline, and the 362 most recent comparable approvals within 1 km — then returns a high-IRR option, benchmarked against recent approved precedent within 1 km to support a defensible planning case.

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Your lot polygon
Real cadastral, not a bounding box.
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Your zoning code
By-law 569-2013 + every exception schedule.
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Tall Building Guidelines
12.5 m side setback, 25 m tower separation, angular planes.
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362 live comparables
Approved precedent within 1 km, weighted by recency + status.

Everything else on this page — the custom geometry editor, the conservative, balanced, and aggressive approval paths, the live pro forma, the shadow study, the 40-page report — exists to refine what this button gives you. Most users stop after one click.

Proof

See the output before you start

A real Toronto sample project, end to end — the same artifacts you generate for your own site.

Sample project

240 Adelaide St W — 52-storey downtown tower feasibility

6-storey podium · downtown CR zone · benchmarked against nearby comparable applications · 40-page bound PDF

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52Storeys
6Storey podium
710Residential units
574,950GFA (sq ft)
$788.8MGross revenue
65.8%Profit margin
18.3%IRR
2.64×Equity multiple
Sample / demo output — illustrative, not a guaranteed result. Your figures derive from your own parcel, zoning, and editable assumptions.

Inside the 40-page report

8 of the sections you get
Executive Summary📄

58-storey mixed-use highrise — 691 units + 13,000 sf retail on a 12,938 sf downtown lot.

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01
Site & Parcel🗺

230 Adelaide St West — 12,938 sf in St. Lawrence, steps from St. Andrew subway.

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02
Zoning & Policy📋

CRE x48 site-specific exception — FSI 49×, well above the 2–3× CRE baseline.

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03
Massing Options🏗

58-storey tower on a 6-storey podium, 634,105 sf GFA — three massing options.

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04
Pro Forma Summary📊

Sources & uses, 10-year DCF, sensitivity and Monte Carlo — fully editable.

Read section →
05
Comparable Approvals📍

Benchmarked to nearby ZBLAs reaching 40–60× FSI on downtown transit sites.

Read section →
06
Planning Risk Register

Entitlement, market and construction risks rated by severity, with by-law citations.

Read section →
07
Recommendations

Formalize a ZBLA, confirm S37, commit affordable units, refine setbacks in SPA.

Read section →
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What’s inside the report

Zoning-backed site summary
Conservative / balanced / aggressive options
Editable underwriting assumptions
Comparable approvals map
Required application pathway
Risk register
PDF / PPTX / CSV export
Every output is tied to zoning rules, comparable approvals, or editable assumptions — not black-box AI.
Built for
  • Developers underwriting Toronto deals
  • Architects pitching mid-rise & mixed-use
  • Planners drafting pre-application packages
  • Lenders & LPs reviewing feasibility
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What it does

The whole feasibility loop —
in one workflow.

Site intelligence, massing, underwriting, and the deliverables a lender or partner actually reads — grouped by the order you use them. No juggling Excel, Mapbox, AutoCAD, and a planner’s email chain.

A Site intelligence
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Toronto parcel picker + zoning

Click any lot on the satellite map. SiteYield pulls the parcel geometry, zoning code, exception schedules, MTSA / PMTSA proximity, heritage adjacency, and transit distance. Multi-parcel assembly merge.

Infrastructure constraint scan

Live capacity checks against City of Toronto and Ontario Energy Board open data — water, sanitary, stormwater, and electrical headroom at your address. Surfaces constraints before you commit.

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Live development comparables

300+ active applications within 1 km from Toronto’s open data — storeys, FSI, status, and decision dates. Sourced precedent for your rezoning narrative.

B Massing and design
✏️

Freeform polygon drawing

Trace any building footprint — L, U, chamfered, notched. Snaps to lot edges within 3 m. Drag any vertex to reshape.

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Multi-volume podium + tower

Stack a wide podium and a stepped-back tower with per-edge step-back control to meet Toronto’s tower setback and separation requirements.

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Production-grade materials

Curtain wall, brick podium, balcony stacks, mullion grid, rooftop amenity and green roof, mechanical penthouse — all parameter-driven.

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Shadow study and time animation

Animate sun position by date and time, with equinox / solstice presets, cast onto neighbouring buildings and heritage districts to check Tall Building Guideline shadow windows.

C Underwriting
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Live pro forma

Hard cost, soft cost, DC / CBC, parkland, financing, and sales velocity in one model. Move an assumption and every downstream number recalculates instantly.

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IRR / DCF / Monte Carlo sensitivity

Full 10-year DCF, tornado-chart sensitivity, and a Monte Carlo risk distribution — so you see the range of outcomes, not a single point estimate.

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Unit pricing by floor, exposure, view, and corner

Per-unit pricing built from a base rate × floor, exposure, view, and corner premiums — closer to how units actually sell than a flat $/sq ft.

D Deliverables
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Required applications estimator

Reads your massing and estimates the likely approvals path — OPA / ZBA / SPA / Minor Variance — with Planning Act citations and comparable precedent. An estimate to plan around, not a legal opinion.

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40-page PDF / PPTX / CSV export

Bound feasibility report (Executive Summary → Recommendations), PowerPoint for IC memos, and CSV for the analysts.

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Consultant and lender handoff package

Shareable view-only links plus .obj / .mtl 3D export into SketchUp, Revit, or Rhino — so your architect, planner, and lender start from your model.

Transparency

Data you can audit.
Assumptions you can override.

Every figure traces back to a named source or a setting you control — nothing is a black box.

Parcel geometryCity cadastral
Zoning by-law and exceptionsBy-law 569-2013
Overlays and planning contextCity open data
Nearby development applicationsToronto open data
Tall Building Guidelines checksCity guidelines
Construction cost assumptionsAltus guide · editable
Development charges / parkland / soft costsCity schedule · editable
Rent, sale, cost, financing, and timelineEditable
About us

Built by a developer,
for developers.

Pre-development is the ugliest part of building. The math is opaque, the data is fragmented, the tools are 1990s. Every developer's "feasibility model" is a personal Excel sheet built over a decade — undocumented, unsharable, untrustable.

SiteYield.ai exists because someone had to write the calculator that actually makes sense. One that respects the rigor of how developers, planners, and lenders really think — and one that produces output you'd actually send to your IC.

We're focused on Toronto first because Toronto is where we know the by-law. Vancouver, Ottawa, and the GTA are next. Every city we add deepens the same engine: real zoning data, real comparables, real construction economics.

1click
Parcel pick → fully populated 3D massing
~30sec
Lot to first massing alternatives
3postures
Conservative · Balanced · Aggressive
Honest scope

Built for the decision,
not the drawings.

Built for
  • Developers screening Toronto sites
  • Architects preparing early massing studies
  • Planners preparing pre-application strategy
  • Lenders and LPs reviewing assumptions
  • Consultants producing client-ready feasibility outputs
Not built for
  • ×Final architectural drawings
  • ×Legal zoning opinions
  • ×Building permit drawings
  • ×Replacing your architect, planner, lawyer, or engineer
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Same engine, homeowner-friendly. Draw your lot and SiteYield Home checks setbacks, footprint, and how big a suite you can build — then hands you a feasibility PDF with a cost band and permit timeline. Free for Toronto homeowners.

3D envelope & viewerFeasibility PDFCost band & permit timelineToronto contractor directory
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Pricing · One subscription, both tools

Transparent, project-aware,
no per-seat tax.

Start free. Upgrade when the deal is worth it. Every paid plan unlocks both SiteYield Pro and SiteYield Home Pro — one account, two tools.

Early access pricing — locked for founding users.
SiteYield Home
Free
For Toronto homeowners checking garden-suite feasibility on their own backyard
  • SiteYield Home envelope tool + 3D viewer
  • Downloadable feasibility PDF
  • Cost band + permit timeline
  • Toronto contractor directory
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Studio
CA$349/mo
For multi-person firms running parallel developments
  • Everything in Pro (both tools), plus:
  • Multi-user (5 seats included)
  • Shared project library across the team
  • Custom PDF templates
  • Priority support + onboarding call
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FAQ

Questions buyers ask first.

How accurate is the pro forma?

As accurate as the assumptions you give it. Costs draw on the Altus 2026 Canadian Cost Guide, development charges on the current City of Toronto schedule (with Bill 23 rental treatment), and financing on current rates — all of which you can override. It runs full DCF, sensitivity, and Monte Carlo so you see a range of outcomes, not a single number. Treat it as a fast, defensible screening model, not a final appraisal.

What data does SiteYield use?

Parcel geometry and zoning from the City of Toronto, By-law 569-2013 and its exception schedules, planning overlays, nearby development applications from Toronto’s open data, and the Tall Building Design Guidelines. Cost and financing benchmarks come from published industry sources. Every input is shown with its source.

Can I override the assumptions?

Yes — every cost, rent, sale price, financing term, and timeline assumption is editable. The defaults are a starting point; the model is yours to tune to your deal.

Does SiteYield replace my architect or planner?

No. It compresses the weeks between “I found a site” and “I know whether to pursue it.” Your architect still designs the building, your planner still runs the approvals, and your lawyer still gives the legal opinion. SiteYield gets you to a defensible go / no-go before you spend on consultants.

What cities are supported?

Toronto today — that’s where the by-law data is modelled in depth. The GTA, Ottawa, and Vancouver are on the roadmap. The engine is jurisdiction-agnostic; per-city by-law data is what takes time. Tell us where you build and we’ll add you to the list.

Is my project data private?

Your projects stay in your browser by default. Server-side save for cross-device access is opt-in and encrypted. We don’t train models on your projects, and we don’t sell your data.

Can I export to PDF, PowerPoint, CSV, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, or other formats?

Yes — a 40-page bound PDF, PPTX for IC memos, CSV for analysts, and .obj / .mtl 3D export that opens in SketchUp, Revit, or Rhino, plus shareable view-only links.

Is this suitable for lenders or investment-committee review?

That’s what it’s built for. The report is structured for IC and lender review — executive summary, pro forma, comparables, planning pathway, and a risk register — with every figure traceable to a source or an assumption you set. It supports the decision; it doesn’t replace formal appraisal or legal due diligence.

Stop remodelling the same site from scratch.
Start with a defensible feasibility package.

14-day Pro trial. No card required. Generate massing, pro forma, comparables, and a report from one workflow.